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NONVERBAL LEARNING DISABILITIES systematically identifies, describes, and explains the elements and dynamics of the nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD) syndrome--including its neuropsychological, academic, and socioemotional/adaptational aspects. In addition, this groundbreaking work explores the ramifications of the NLD syndrome for both the theoretical and applied aspects of the neuropsychology of learning disabilities in particular and for the field of child-clinical neuropsychology in general.


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Byron P. Rourke is Professor of Psychology and University Professor at the University of Windsor and a member of the faculty of the Child Study Center, School of Medicine, Yale University. Past President of the International Neuropsychological Society and of the Division of Clinical Neuropsychology of the American Psychological Association, he is cofounder and coeditor of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology,The Clinical Neuropsychologist and Child Neuropsychology and serves on the editorial boards of a number of scientific and professional journals. He was the 1994 recipient of the Canadian Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Practice of Psychology. His authored, coauthored, and edited books include Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Child Neuropsychology Learning Disabilities and Psychosocial Functioning Neuropsychological Validation of Learning Disability Subtypes Neuropsychological Assessment of Children Neuropsychology of Learning Disabilities.

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  • Hardcover: 253 pages
  • Publisher: The Guilford Press; 1 edition (May 5, 1989)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0898623782
  • ISBN-13: 978-0898623789
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #956,470 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This book is about an odyssey of research and clinical efforts that has culminated in the isolation of a pattern of neuropsychological abilities and deficits characterized as the nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD) syndrome. Read the first page
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previous subtest, significant craniocerebral trauma, mechanical arithmetic performance, older versus younger subjects, minus incorrect, socioemotional disturbance, disabled spellers, phonetically accurate variety, central processing abilities, internalized psychopathology, rote verbal skills, neuropsychological assets, complex psychomotor skills, psycholinguistic skills, socioemotional adaptation, reliable subtypes, neuropsychological deficiencies, phonemic hearing, neuropsychological assessment procedures, intermodal integration, neuropsychological abilities, learning disability subtypes, developmental presentation, abilities ordinarily, intellectual screening
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Tactual Performance Test, Category Test, Full Scale, Target Test, Underlining Test, Grooved Pegboard Test, Digit Span, Aphasia Screening Test, Speech-Sounds Perception Test, Auditory Closure Test, Holes Test, Object Assembly, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Sentence Memory Test, Adaptive Behavior Composite, Maze Test, Rourke Right-Left, Block Design, Picture Arrangement, Trail Making Test, Aunt Gertrude, Picture Completion, Back-Front Model, Behavioral Observations, Family Relations
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2.0 out of 5 stars Slow going..., April 2, 2000
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Although this book is considered one of the seminal works describing Non-verbal Learning Disabilities, and the data are quite informative, I find the writing heavy and laborious. It's probably worth slogging through it if you have a professional interest, but, otherwise, look for something more accessible.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat informative..., August 5, 2004
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If you're willing to work to slog through it. However, Rourke is guilty of ignoring data that don't fit his view of NVLD/NLD. For example, he states repeatedly that the line between HFA (high-functioning autism) and Asperger's Syndrome is so blurred that the two should not be characterized as different conditions. On the same sort of muddy evidence, however, he claims that NLD is a separate condition for Asperger's Syndrome: despite the near identical "required symptoms" for the two conditions, despite the shared common comorbidities (such as dyscalculia, dysgraphia, depression, problems with visuo-spatial orientation, sensory integration disorder, etc., etc.), and despite extensive research including a study by Klin and Volkmar (much admired researchers in the field of autism and Asperger's) that showed that some 80% of their Asperger's clients at the Yale Child Study Center diagnostically "overlapped" with the NLD criteria proposed by Rourke.

Rourke has proposed guidelines for diagnosing NLD for the next revision of the ICD-10. This, of course, assumes that NLD continues to be classified separately from Asperger's Syndrome, and not as a "milder version".

I, by the way, have two professional diagnoses of Asperger's Syndrome, and another professional diagnosis of NLD with Asperger's Characteristics.
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